On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:21:57AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > > > Olivier Chapuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > However the .sgml is really hard to read. > > > The markup gets in the way. > > > I don't know if I'd like trying to edit the sgml with emacs or vi. > > > > I do not understand. Really, SGML, XML and HTML is very very similar > > at the editor level and you say that you would like to use HTML. > > The massive amount of markup in docbook format makes it hard > to actually read the text. > > I realized that XEmacs wasn't highlighting the document by default. > I made some adjustments and I got some of the stuff to highlight but > theres still a huge amount of markup in the file. I see that > SGML mode has a command to hide most of the markup which helps, but a > quick test shows that you can't edit with the markup hidden. > (Stuff gets put in the wrong place.) > > Right now I'd say that this is still a problem, but not a big one. > I'd guess after I get used to sgml-mode, there might be more benefits > than problems. > What we can do (and I experiment this) is to add aliases. This involve to extand the dtd and to preprocess the document with a filter style-sheet. Currently: <acronym> --> <ac> <emphasis> --> <em> <quote> --> <q> <command> --> <cmd> <envar> --> <ev> <filename> --> <f> <option> --> <opt> <optional> --> <otn> <parameter> --> <pmt> and <pr> (for fvwm parameter reference) <userinput> --> <ui> ...etc. and we can add <fc>: for fvwm commands <fcr>: for fvwm commands references (see <fcr>KillModule</fcr>) <fp>: for fvwm parameters <fpr>: for fvwm parameters references I think that smaller MarkUp may help reading/editing the source. Also, we may remove from the dtd some the Markup that we do not want to use. > > I see that Docbook supports images. I guessed that we still > couldn't use images because we want to convert Docbook to manpage > format. I haven't looked at the process to convert Docbook > to man, but is there some way to mark text in such a way that > it will not appear in the man page? I'm thinking of: > > <inlineimageref> > The following shows how a HGradient appears: > <image>XXX</image> > </inlineimageref> > > (The whole inlineimageref section would get dropped out when the man > page was generated.) > Yes this is possible. Olivier -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
